Brooder.



m. 814,041. PATENTED MAR. 6, 1906. F. 0. HARE.

BRODDER.

APPLIGA'I'IGN FILED T1113. 5, 1505.

2 SHEETSSHEBT 1.

ave on PATBNTED MAR, 6, 1906 2 SHBETS-SHEET 2.

nuemkat 45 the cone 14 and is distributed through the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN O. HARE. OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW roan.

BROODEH.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

7 To alt whcrrt it may concern.-

' and rests over the center 0 the Be it known that I, FRANKLIN C. I'IARE, late a subject of the King of Great Britain, -but who have received my first naturalization papers for citizenship of the United States, residing at Bulialo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooders, of which the following is a speeifi cation.

This invention'relates to breeders; and it consists in the arrangements hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a breeder embodying this invention on the line I 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same brooder, taken on the iine 2 2 of Fig. l; and Fi 3 is a perspective View of a brooder embo Vin this inven tion, showing the cover raiser and parts broken away to exhibit internal construction. The brooder is composed of a box having the bottom 1 the sides 2 2,.and the ends 3 3. A run 4 may be added and may be hinged. to the brooder-box 5, so as to take the two positions shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The hrooder is preferabiy raised on legs 6. The hrooder chamber contains a heater, preferably consisting of a drum 7, having a chirnne 8 leading) outside the heater and supports upon a tu e9, which 0 ens by the perforation 10' into the center 0 the bottom of the drun 7 and also by means of a'shelf 11 supports a lamp, Outside the tube 9 is a second tube 12, which takes fresh air from outside the broader-chamber, heats it by contact with the outside of the tube 9,.and discharges it into the brooder-chamber through a perfo rated wall, consisting in the present case of fabric 13 of either wire, burlap, or similarlyoperating material. The drum 7 has an inverted cone 14, whose apexoints downward erforation 10. The heated air rising from t e lamp 15 rises through the tube 9, strikes the apex of drum 7, so that said drum constitutes a heatradiatin means. The drum is set sufii' ciently igh from the floor 1 to permit the chicks to gather under the drum, and from the periphery of the drum hangs a split curtain 16,- through which the chicks may enter and under which the heat is greater than outside. The heated air, however, being con stantly ljirmight in through the tube 12, is continuously freshly fed to the chicks and passes out through the slittcd curtairf "16 or under it into the hrooder'chamber roper. This brooder-cl'mmber has a to pvor cei ing 1? ofa orous fabric, such as musiin or canvas, wine 1 is fastened to a frame 18, which rests on cleats l9, fastened to the interior of the walls of the breeder-box, and may be removed easily therefrom. The fiabric or ceiling 17 makes a ceiling at one end of the box,"

andby a curtain 20, usually split, attached to the frame 18, a compartment Ziis created in a selected portion of the breeder-box, which w is inclosed by the bottom and three walls of the box and by the fab ie or ceiling 17 and the curtain '20. Undei/the ceiling 1 7, as above suggested is ihliiceii the heater above described. The heated ail" in the chamber 2 rises constantly through the ceiling 17, but

is not permitted to passthrough it with anygreat speed, so that there is a' constant outlet of the air-from the chamber 21, which is principally supplied from the fresh air led in between the tubes 9 and 12 of the heater. The chicks ma gather under the heater itself and beneath the curtain 16, where they will re; ceive the greatest heat, or they ma move out from the curtain 16 and into the c amber 21, where they will receive less heat, but more room, or they may move out from behind the curtain 20 and into the front of the breeder and may pass out through the door 22 into the run 4.

The breeder-box is provided with means for allowing the air that would pass outward through the ceiling 17 t be led out of the breeder. This may be dghe by perforations, which in the present erd bodiment of this invcntion arethe pores in a canvas or fabric top 23 for the whole breeder-box. This to of fabric 23 is fasteriod to a frame 24, whic may rest u on cleats 25, fastened on the inner walls 0 the breeder-box; or in any other suitable way. and may he hinged to the outlet, a.hrooder-chamber within said hroodfor delivering warmed fresh air within said er bcx having a porous ceiling, and a. heater in said brooder-chambcr having means for dehvering warn'ied fresh an into said chamber.

3. in a hroorler, ahrooder box having; airi outlet, a ln'ooder-chalnbcr within said brooder-hox having a porous ceiling and. a heater in stiluting, a. hover and having, means for delivering warl'ned fresh airwithin said curtain and thence into said chamber.

3. ln :1 lHLHMiCI', a broo lcr-box having :1. porous top, a in'oor[er-chamber within said hroodm=ho3 having a porous ceiling, and a lira. in said hnindcr rhamlierhaving means for delivering warmed fresh air into said chamber.

In a hrooder, a brooder-hox having a porous top, a hrooderwhamber within said hroodenhox havin a porous ceiling, and a heater in said hroot er-chamher having a cue tain constituting a hover and having means curtain and thence into said chamber.

5. in a hrooder, a broodcr-hox having a porous top, a lnwmdcr-chamber within said hroodenbox having a porous ccilirn and a curtain constituting one side thereoi and a.

\ heater in said hroodm-chaniher having means said hroodcr-clmmher having a curtain r,-.on-

for delivering warnicd fresh air into said chamber.

for delivering warmed fresh air within said curtain and thence into said chamber.

FRANKLIN (J. HARE.

Witnesses:

GORA E. SIEGHT, F. L. BRADroRn. 

